A common practice here, if it isn't the police, it is the air sea rescue the noise is tremendous, then we have the lovely bird like gliders, and the acrobatic little bi-planes doing their routines before the local shows, all happens here lol

These things don't half startle you :o( The low flying jets we get here are rediculous. They SCREAM through the air, and sometimes I think they're going to crash into the roof. They're very frightening.

I miss the Harriers, used to love to see them exercising but the army now has Cottesmore and Luffenham, both have new names and Wittering is very quiet now as well, thats progress I guess, the torch is coming through here as well Denise and the Queen is coming to the town and then visiting Burghley, so we`ll be getting extra security checks as well....

Hi Lincslass. I remember the Victor bombers flying from Cottesmore or Wittering and using the Seaton-Harringworth viaduct as a practice target...they used to fly very low over the house and then go even lower over the viaduct....and they were VERY LOUD!!!.

As the cros flies we're not far from east midlands airport and although not under a flightpath do get some activity. The very best was Concord....it sounded so different to anything else....and was suprisingly small. The airambulance is based at ema and I think the police heli.
My real gripe are the ' flying lawnmowers' aka powered hang gliders....

I agree Sanbaz/Pam I am so not into it, all that money could have been much better spent.
My daughter was worried about living in East London a short walk from the arena over the six weeks of the games, she had a secure gated flat but its the streets at night that worried her, so she has moved flats to get further away from it.

i really dont blame your daughter for moving away Denise, all this talk about army etc is inviting trouble i think, if they didnt make such a big issue it would be ok.
i feel for people who live in the area having to travel to work etc with all the transport traffic and people etc, i would hate it. feels like its on 6 months not 6 weeks :o((

Thank goodness I live at the back of beyond. Only excitement here is the police helicopter looking for copper theives or burglars. Damn noisy and don't reckon much to the spotlight shining in the bedroom window!!!. I think it's because there is a field at the top of our garden and they like to check it out in case they are hiding there.

How things can change having the Weekend from hell!
My daughter took these photos as she was at home having been very ill for 3 weeks with a bad cough and breathing difficulties, she has seen 4 GP’s in that time and last Wednesday the latest GP said she was fit to fly to Norway on Friday morning.
So back to her London flat on Thursday but after a terrible night she felt so ill she made her boyfriend go to Norway without her. She then phoned us at 08.30 to say she would be back home on the 09.45 train. To cut a long story short she never made it.
You can imagine our worry when we could not contact her for over 3 hours! I was just about to phone the police when we were informed she had collapsed in the street and was taken to a Teaching Hospital in London. She has pneumonia and at 26 that is very worrying, but at least now she is in the best place in their critical care and is responding to the right treatment at long last.

Oh! that is just awful. I can imagine you would be out of your mind with worry. I hope she now will get the treatment she should have had from the GPs she had seen before. Bless her and I hope she is well very soon.

So sorry to read about your daughter,Denise..I can just imagine how you felt...I do hope she makes a swift
recovery..she must have been feeling so bad..at least she will be getting the correct care now...My thoughts are with you all..x